Magnus Manske @magnusmanske@mastodon.technology

Even if you don't use Firefox, you can donate to mozilla.org.

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

Early unit of computing power: one "kilogirl" was equivalent to a thousand hours of manual computing labor

Why didn’t Wikipedia have article on Donna Strickland, winner of a Nobel Prize? https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/04/donna-strickland-wikipedia/

Easily one of my favorite animations from #Kurzgesagt, because it combines an introduction to an exciting topic in #biology (phages, fascinating nano-robots that should get anyone interested in evolution) with a relevant real-world application (alternatives to antibiotics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg

Using Java in low maitenance open-source software just got harder.

Oracle decided to monetize on JDK support, and they now release "non-LTS" JDK every six months with **no support overlap**, and LTS every three years with **only six months overlap of support**.

Python on the other hand gets about **5 years** of support for **each release** which gives you **three years** of overlap.

#java

Good lord, #RickAndMorty just got renewed for SEVENTY new episodes. At their current rate of episodes per season, that renews them through season NINE. http://deadline.com/2018/05/rick-and-morty-renewed-70-episode-order-creators-dan-harmon-justin-roiland-deal-adult-swim-1202386828/

Checkmate atheists

Temporary rules posted at Britain's Richmond Golf Club after German bombs hit the course in 1940 https://t.co/plPyFon6Wk

When you feel like your product isn't good enough, just remember this is what #Amazon looked like in the early days.

Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the largest art museum in the United States), about the success of #OpenAccess & collaboration with #Wikimedia:

"At The Met, more people (ten million a month) are now experiencing The Met collection on Wikipedia than on metmuseum.org (two million a month). Furthermore, they’re doing so in languages and contexts that are near impossible for The Met to replicate and support on its own website."

#GLAM

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-and-the-met-a-shared-digital-vision-f91b59eab2e9

Fantastic step-by-step explanation of how to create a #Wikidata query. The example produces an interactive map of female writers from North African countries, with photos, in 14 lines of code.

https://medium.com/@alexstinson/writing-a-wikidata-query-discovering-women-writers-from-north-africa-d020634f0f6c

Hello fediverse! https://lib.reviews/ is a free/open/nonprofit alternative to proprietary review sites like #Goodreads, #Yelp, #IMDB.

It plugs into #opendata sources: #Wikidata, #OpenLibrary and #OpenStreetMap (OSM integration is very basic at this point). Still a long way to go but we have a small community and lots of reviews already. On GitHub at: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#lib.reviews:matrix.org

#introductions

Google's Talk to Books allows you to ask a question and see answers from the millions of books they've digitized:

https://books.google.com/talktobooks/

To do this they built a model from a billion conversations. I wonder what the conversations were? I guess they could be search queries and clicked responses ... but maybe not?

https://research.google.com/semanticex

Fuscia sounds both amazing and scary. An AI/assistant first operating system is equally the most amazing thing and the most intrusive thing. I suppose everything is headed this way, but it will be interesting to see how much resistance is offered to counter these types of things (my guess is not much until it's way too late) https://9to5google.com/2018/03/23/fuchsia-friday-maxwell/

Just saw this #CSS #meme on Facebook. hahahaha

Containerization, Atomic Distributions, and the Future of #Linux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/110486

I got some good photos today. I won't share them all here, but for those interested (*cough* @RoseLemberg@twitter.com *cough*) they'll be going up on Flickr shortly.

This Golden Pheasant has been dubbed Donald by the locals for his hairstyle.

Syncing my Twitter account with Mastodon posts: https://medium.com/@pimterry/sync-your-mastodon-back-to-twitter-3c72f2bc8626

My first Firefox Addon: rewrites requests to the mobile Wikipedia website to the standard desktop one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-mobile-wikipedia/

It's 100% functional on both desktop and android versions of Firefox (the latter being my main motivation). Writing web extensions is awesomely easy.